Jiang Qiang and his entourage had already arrived in Tianjin at this time and lived in a courtyard in the French Concession. This place has long been bought by Wang Tianmu and them. Huzi said, "Boss, this yard is really big, is it that the boss has already bought it," Jiang Qiang said, "You are just a fool, is it possible that you don't need money, those ghosts can't give it away" Hurry up and find a place to live, and see what is still missing here to buy, and Wang Tianmu's identity is now a Japanese name, you must not come forward to recognize him when you see him, Huzi, do you understand? Huzi said, "Yes." "Starting tomorrow, Qin Siyu will take everyone to figure out the surrounding environment, this time we are going to get rid of those traitors, and we must get rid of all those traitors before the war, so that it will also give a safe environment to those who are left behind on the secret front.

Jiang Qiang looked at the information given by Wang Tianmu to show that the pace of the war was coming soon, and it was already March 1937, Jiang Qiang did not want to disrupt the pace of the Japanese war at this time, and there were many experts in later generations to study the Sino-Japanese war, if Japan took advantage of the economic crisis. If we break through the cauldron and attack China on a large scale, we may have a better chance of success, because at this time the economies of Western countries are in recession. The possibility of intervening in the war is extremely low, and because Japan is "anti-red", even if it occupies China after a major war with China, it will be greatly damaged. Moreover, Western countries can also take advantage of the Sino-Japanese war to export their own surplus materials. Both China and Japan will definitely need it greatly. At that time, no matter who wins, Western countries will become creditors and will be able to get out of the economic crisis smoothly. Moreover, even if Japan occupies China, it will take years or even decades to completely rule the country, and the red polar bear in the north is eyeing the country. Japan will not pose a substantial threat to the West in the future, unless the polar bears are also defeated to him.

However, this is impossible to appear, and the Western powers are not stupid, let Japan dominate the world, and they themselves will have no way to live! So in the end, it may be that Japan becomes the number one power in Asia, but the polar bear also rises to compete with it, and the two countries fall into a big war, and then die together! History is, after all, history, and many times in the eyes of future generations, history has many absurdities and ridiculousness, and there are also many opportunities that are missed and regrettable. Will Japan dare to do this? Can't! There are too many uncertainties in this, and although the Japanese people are unimaginably ambitious, they are still relatively rational and calm when formulating actual policies. Especially in the early days of the war, the Japanese were not as fanatical as they were after the formal invasion of China, and they also wanted to go step by step, instead of shouting the slogan of "occupy China in three months".

"Hattori-kun, look, how magnificent and beautiful the mountains and rivers of this branch are!" Hideki Tojo, accompanied by Major General Hattori Hyojiro, toured the summer resort and said with infinite emotion. "Yes, Tojo-kun, China is vast, rich in resources, and much stronger than Japan!" Hattori Hyojiro bowed slightly. "It's a pity!" Captain Hideki Tojo sighed. "What a pity?" "It's a pity that the people of China are too stupid and cowardly, and they don't deserve to have such a rich continent at all!" A fierce light burst out in Hideki Tojo's eyes! "Tojo-kun said it in time, the people of China really don't deserve to have these, these should belong to the Yamato nation and belong to the Great Japanese Empire!" "Yes, if the Japanese Empire wants to become the first power in Asia, and even the first power in the world, it must expand externally and obtain the land and resources we want, and China is the most ideal object for expansion!" Hideki Tojo clenched his fists and said. "Yes, I have been in China for less than half a year, and I already like it here, the great palace, the beautiful scenery, China once had a glorious history, but now it is all in the past, in the future, the Great Japanese Empire will replace him and become the first in the world!" Hattori Hyojiro shouted arrogantly. "Hattori-kun, let's work hard for the sake of the Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Tojo-kun, although the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Army is not weak, there is still a very big gap compared to the empire!" Hattori Hyojiro said. Hideki Tojo said: "What we are most worried about now is Tang Juwu in Shanghai, their army, and Wang Yizhe's army in Heilongjiang is also very strong, and as soon as this war breaks out, what we are most worried about is that Shanghai's army will intervene." "Tojo Army, our 14th Brigade has had contact with the 36th Division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance of the Chinese Army in many ways, and there have been more than 100 battles, according to our calculations, about two to three Chinese troops are comparable to our army......" "Hattori-kun, I heard that in the past four months, your troops have suffered a lot of casualties, but why do you despise the Chinese Army so much?" Hideki Tojo asked rather unpleasantly. So many casualties among his subordinates. As a leading general, you should be vigilant, this Hattori Hyojiro actually doesn't have the slightest concern for the Chinese army, isn't this too irresponsible!

"Tojo-kun. You are only talking about the casualties of our army, but don't you say that the casualties of the Chinese army are three to four times that of our army? "Hattori Hyojiro is not convinced." Even so, there is nothing to be proud of, the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire should be one as ten! Hideki Tojo said coldly. Hyojiro Hattori was stunned. Hattori Hyojiro was stunned, "Hattori-kun, the branch is vast. With a large population and an inexhaustible supply of soldiers, it would be difficult for the empire to conquer the country once it was unified, and now, with the warlords of China fighting and civil strife, it was a good opportunity for us to attack in a big way, but although we had been preparing for so many years. But the timing was still a little bit short, and the Great Depression around the world helped China and dragged down our plans! Hideki Tojo said unwillingly. This time, the plan of the military department is to start from Tianjin, take the entire northern Hebei region in a month, and then advance like Shandong, where to land in Guangdong, where is the most important thing, this time to defeat the army of the Nanjing government first, and then to duel with the army in Shanghai, I want to see if the army in Shanghai is really strong. This time, General Matsui Ishine led the battle in the north, and His Excellency Toshida in the south commanded him, and the general direction has been decided, and you must pay attention to the situation of the 29th Army in Tianjin.

As a teenager, Hideki Tojo was nurtured by a family atmosphere, and he longed early to be a soldier and serve the emperor. As a teenager, Hideki Tojo attended Yotsuya Elementary School in Tokyo, Gakushuin Elementary School, Johoku Junior High School, Tokyo Army Local Kindergarten School, and Army Central Kindergarten School. In order to cultivate his son's bushido spirit, Hidekyo Tojo specially asked someone to teach Hideki Tojo to learn the "Divine Sword Dance". In September 1899, Hideki Tojo entered the Tokyo Regional Army Infant School. Entering the military academy, Hideki Tojo followed his father's example and aspired to become a "qualified officer loyal to the emperor" and "establish meritorious service for Japan's conquest". In September 1902, at the age of 19, Hideki Tojo entered the Army Central Infant School after three years of study. Due to the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Qing government was forced to sign the Treaty of Xincho, which further stimulated the ambition of Japanese militarism to expand abroad. During his studies, Hideki Tojo felt the "ecstasy" in Japan over the success of the invasion of China. Before and after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the whole country was mobilized in Japan, and the Japanese Government actively stepped up its arms expansion and warfare, while military circles were rampantly clamoring for "revenge" against Russia and preparing for a big war with Tsarist Russia. Military schools at all levels that train officers serve the war of aggression and accordingly implement the "wartime education policy." On the one hand, they have shortened the length of study and stepped up education and training, and on the other hand, they have vigorously instilled in the cadets the idea of militarist aggression.

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904 (Meiji 37) was a crucial battle for the Japanese militarist government. Hideki Tojo was promoted from the Army Central Infant School to the Army Non-commissioned Officer School. Hideki Tojo often went to the Ichitani platform behind the non-commissioned officer school with a group of like-minded classmates to talk about it, and Hideki Tojo often jumped out to show everyone his not very professional "sword dance". The crowd's applause made Tojo Hideki forgetful, and the extreme excitement made him completely fall into the wild fantasy of the future. After graduating, as part of the elite, Tojo entered the Ministry of War as an intern, and then went to the military attaché of the Japanese Embassy in Germany, and happened to meet Crown Prince Hirohito traveling to Europe, receiving Japanese military attachés stationed all over Europe, and under the recommendation of Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Family, young officers led by Nagata Tetsuyama swore allegiance to the crown prince, swearing to eradicate the old forces of the Choshu lord in the army and eliminate the interference of political party forces in the imperial power. Subsequently, Baden-Baden Miha-U (Tetsuyama Nagata, Toshishiro Obata and Ninji Okamura) drew up an outline of the plan. As the fourth person in Baden-Baden, Hideki Tojo was in charge of keeping watch outside the gate. In the summer of 1921, he traveled to Germany, the only time in his life that he had extended prolonged contact with a non-Asian environment, and at the end of the year, after visiting the Washington Conference, he hurried back to Japan by train across the United States, and he was more impressed by Germany than by the United States, probably because he knew German rather than English. In August 1931, he was appointed chief of the Mobilization Division of the General Staff Headquarters Maintenance Bureau, and at the time of the "September 18" incident, various political parties in Japan were dissatisfied with the laissez-faire attitude of the military department, and Hideki Tojo immediately launched an "investigation" into the words and deeds made by the political parties that were unfavorable to the military department, accusing them of "sowing discord between the military and the people." In March 1933, Hideki Tojo was appointed Major General of the Army, and in November of the same year, he was appointed Director of the Military Investigation Department. In March 1934, after only four months in the position of Minister of Military Investigation, Hideki Tojo was transferred to the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and then served in the 24th Infantry Brigade and then the 12th Division Headquarters.

After Japan occupied Northeast China by force, in order to realize the so-called unitary rule of the puppet Manchukuo, the so-called "88" resolution was issued in 1932, and then the Japanese institutions in the puppet Manchukuo were reorganized in 1934. From this time on, the Kwantung Army actually controlled the political, military, diplomatic, and economic power of the puppet Manchurians, and the commander of the Kwantung Army became the Emperor. Hideki Tojo held the post of commander of the military police, and in accordance with the regulations, he also held the important post of director of the Japanese administrative affairs bureau in Manchuria. When Hideki Tojo arrived, the first thing he did was to nurture his own henchmen. Prior to this, the Kwantung Army Gendarmerie was only a contingent of about 200 people. This insignificant force, of course, could not meet the needs of Hideki Tojo. Therefore, he quickly mobilized a number of capable generals from Japan, Taiwan, Korea and other places, and arranged important positions for them in the gendarmerie, cultivating loyal cronies in a short period of time.

In the early morning of February 26, 1936, nearly 1,500 soldiers of the "Imperial Road faction" staged a military coup in Tokyo. They seized important institutions such as the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of the Interior, and the General Staff Headquarters, and also took control of the Asahi Shimbun agency. Minister of Internal Affairs Minoru Saito, Director of Army Education Watanabe Shotaro, Minister of Finance Takahashi Isaki and others were killed by the coup soldiers. Under the slogans of "respecting the emperor and retributing treachery" and "Showa Restoration," the putschists supported Sadao Araki and other leaders of the "imperial road" faction to take power and form a cabinet, establish a fascist system, and immediately "march north" to crusade against the Soviet Union. The coup d'état plunged Tokyo into chaos. The news of the coup d'état soon reached "Manchuria," and Hideki Tojo, as the backbone of the "unification faction," could not help but be secretly surprised, because there were also many sympathizers of the "imperial faction" within the Kwantung Army, and he himself might have become one of the targets of assassination by the "imperial faction." Soon, the situation became even more critical - Major General Masakawa of the 11th Special Brigade Regiment stationed in Harbin sent a telegram claiming to support the "military advice" in China; The 16th Division stationed in "Dongmanchuria" has already dispatched itself and rushed to "Xinjing"; There was a riot in the Jiamusi garrison camp, which occupied the East Railway Station and intercepted the train. Faced with the crisis situation, Hideki Tojo took a consistent approach and launched a large-scale manhunt in accordance with the instructions of the Kwantung Army's suppression order, instructing his military police to act directly without consulting the commanders of their subordinate units during the search. He sent secret telegrams and orders to the divisions, brigades, and military police chiefs scattered throughout the country, ordering the immediate execution of the traitors. According to the "blacklist," Changchun's gendarmes acted quickly and arrested and killed all the high-ranking officers of the "Imperial Dao faction" in Changchun. On the other hand, Hideki Tojo lost no time in sending a telegram to the emperor and the military department, stating that the Kwantung Army was opposed to the "military advice" and resolutely supported the emperor. The telegram said: "The 'Imperial Dao faction' rebels killed important ministers of the empire, forced the palace by force, insulted our emperor and disrupted my political program, and caused the world to be angry. Today, the entire Kwantung Army declares its loyalty to the imperial system of the eternal lineage, and does not hesitate to annihilate any rebellion by force to appease the kingdom of God. Now I swear to rebel. He urged the military department to immediately order the arrest of scum and the purge of the whole country. If the 'Imperial Sect' rebels raise their weapons and surrender as soon as possible, they will be exempted from heavy punishment. If they stubbornly resist and do not make a sound, the Kwantung Army will raise its strength and fight hard and punish heaven on its behalf!" Hideki Tojo's resolute and forceful action stabilized the situation in the Kwantung Army, enabling the "unification faction" to firmly control this "flower of the imperial army" and call for the "counterinsurgency" operation in Tokyo. On the 28th, the Tokyo Martial Law Command issued an "order to send troops" to suppress the "rebels". The next day, the rebels surrendered. Later, 17 "Imperial Daoist" officers and fascist theoretician Kita Ichiki were executed, and other major "Imperial Daoist" officers were dismissed or demoted, and the "Imperial Daoist" forces were purged in the military headquarters. With the failure of the "26 February" mutiny, the "unification faction" gained a dominant position over the "imperial faction". Hideki Tojo's "success" in suppressing the anti-Japanese forces of the people in northeastern China and restoring "law and order in Manchuria" and his loyal performance in supporting the emperor in the "February 26 Incident" won him the support and appreciation of the Central Military Department. On December 1, 1936, Hideki Tojo was promoted to lieutenant general.

The Kwantung Army, with Hideki Tojo as chief of staff, was unequivocally supportive of the hardliners, and they strongly demanded permission from the General Staff Headquarters to launch an offensive in North China on the pretext that the entry of Chinese troops into Chahar would pose a threat to Manchukuo. This attitude of the Kwantung Army is naturally undesirable for the hardliners. Hideki Tojo, who had figured out the base of the hardliners, once again exerted his "razor" style and made a prelude - he sent a force in advance to advance in the direction of Chahar without the permission of the General Staff Headquarters, and constantly created false incidents. By mid-August, China and the Soviet Union had concluded a non-aggression pact, which made Tojo even more grounded in his tough rhetoric. As a result, at a meeting held by the Kwantung Army for several days, Hideki Tojo openly sought a theoretical basis for attacking Chahar, claiming: "The main purpose of this offensive can be summed up in three points: first, it can change China's anti-Japanese policy; second, to prevent the further growth of communist forces; Third, it will help develop the economy of North China. Failure to achieve these three goals would make the security of the empire unsafe. At the same time, the Kwantung Army independently drew up the "Outline for Handling the Current Situation," which proposed five guidelines, including launching an all-out armed offensive to punish the Nanking government and annihilating the Central Army in the north, and stated: "The establishment of local political power in order to seek clarity in the areas bordering Manchuria is of paramount importance, and in order to prepare for war against the Soviet Union, it is essential to ensure the security of the front. Its intention was very clear, that is, to take advantage of this Sino-Japanese conflict to establish a puppet regime in North China in one fell swoop, so as to divide China and prevent the surging anti-Japanese forces from forming a united front and posing a threat to Japan, thus affecting its preparations for war against the Soviet Union. Under these circumstances, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters agreed to the Kwantung Army's request to fight against Chahar. However, as the situation developed further, at a cabinet meeting, Foreign Minister Hiroki Hirota put forward the idea of not expanding the situation, and Minister of Zozo Kaya Koshun stated from the financial perspective that Japan would face various financial difficulties that Japan would face if the situation expanded. However, the reality was that the Kwantung Army was like a wild horse, and there was no other way but to adapt to the development of the current situation. At this time, Hideki Tojo was impatient. Ignoring the "instructions of the central authorities," he immediately set about snaring traitors and offering the sign of the autonomous regime in Chanan. The Japanese army's "propaganda and pacification" work was also done very "in a timely manner." After the Battle of Zhangjiakou, they quickly wrote a military song that sang the praises of Tojo Hideki: the hot river wind swept the dust and sand, the Mongolian plateau pasture grass was fragrant, the army marched to the north of Xiazhang, the night attack on the Great Wall was unblocked, and the trenches withered and the night was fragrant. Next to the water kui under the octagonal platform, the two brigades of Yuasa Shichuan overcame all obstacles and went straight forward, and quickly captured Zhangjiakou. The wood rhino tulip grapes are sweet, and the autonomy of Chanan has been established.

The next day, Jiang Qiang began his work there in Tianjin, and the first thing he did was to investigate the traitor Pan Yugui of the 29th Army. Pan Yugui, the word Yansheng, was born in Yanshan, Hebei Province in 1884, his father was the prefect of Guangxi in the early Qing Dynasty, he himself was also a person in the Qing Dynasty, Pan Yugui studied in Japan in his early years, and after graduation, he studied law at Waseda University in Japan, and in 1917, Pan Yugui served as the chief of the military justice department of Chen Guangyuan's 12th Division, and concurrently served as the director of the unified tax bureau of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi. After April 1923, he served as vice president of the Mongolian and Tibetan Academy, senator of the State Council, and deputy director of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway Bureau. In June 1935, together with Shi Yousan and Bai Jianwu, he launched the "Beiping Autonomy". In December 1935, when Song Zheyuan was the chairman of the Political Affairs Committee of the Jicha Procuratorate, he served as the director of Song Zheyuan's administrative affairs department and the senior adviser of the Pingjin Garrison Headquarters. It was this guy who buried the student regiment of the 29th Army, and got Pan Yugui's intelligence that the Japanese army directly attacked the student army that did not have much combat effectiveness, resulting in heavy casualties among the student army, 1,700 student soldiers, and less than 600 people who returned to Beiping alive, and finally Nanyuan was lost. The two generals, Tong Linge and Zhao Dengyu, also died heroically. In fact, according to the combat effectiveness of Zhao Dengyu's department, it has the ability to fight with Japan, but the Japanese army chose the student soldiers as the breakthrough point, in fact, no matter where the student soldiers are placed, the Japanese army will take the lead in attacking these student soldiers, because Pan Yugui has already handed over the military deployment of the 29th Army to the Japanese. This time his arrival will not allow this tragedy to repeat. The first one was to take Pan Yugui, Jiang Qiang began to collect all the traitor information in Beiping when he was in Shanghai, that is, he decided to get rid of those traitors first when the war came.